John Dew

John Anthony Dew was educated at Hastings Grammar School, Lincoln College, Oxford and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. He left the Diplomatic Service in 2013 and is now a painter and printmaker, his website (https://www.johndew.uk/ Official website) gives details and images of his drawings, paintings, etchings and book covers. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1973 and was posted to Caracas 1975–78 with the rank of Third Secretary, later Second Secretary. From 1979–83 he worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), then was posted as First Secretary to the UK delegation to the OECD in Paris 1983–87. At the FCO again he was Deputy Head of (successively) the Republic of Ireland, Falkland Islands and Resource Management Departments 1987–92. He was then Deputy Head of Mission in Dublin 1992–96 and in Madrid 1996–99. After returning to the FCO as Head of the Latin America and Caribbean Department 2000–03, he was seconded to Lehman Brothers in London 2003–04 as Senior Policy Adviser before being appointed HMA, Havana in May 2004, formally presenting his letters of credence that November). Dew's pre-retirement posting was as HMA, Bogota, from 2008 until 2012, when he was succeeded by Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby on leaving the FCO.

John Dew (born 3 May 1952) is a British diplomat and artist who was the British ambassador to Colombia from 2008 to 2012.